I had some issues when I encountered the Stormcloud Cruiser - framerate dropped down to ~20 with it on-screen and several weapons (forward pair of pulse guns, I think) were left floating (still working and moving with the ship, but no sections underneath) after the front section of the ship was destroyed.

(not sure if I should be posting this here or in one of the other threads)

The lag seemed to be a one-off thing - I encountered another one in a different system and didn't experience any framerate drops.

The first time I ran into one was around some asteroids and a planet in the background... but I've been in some more intensive battles (3+ large enemy ships, asteroids, explosions everywhere) and had no issues.Maybe my CPU went into idle mode or something.

I had to drastically reduce the hp of the stormcloud ships because otherwise they'd have like 20 times more total health than any other ship. which was ridiculous. as a result, each section on those ships has only like 20hp.

having densely packed overlapping sections is something i would like to avoid with ship designs. aside from my problem with the amount of health they end up having, i think they are a poor experience for players to destroy. what happens is that you destroy a section, you get a nice satisfying explosion, then it looks like nothing changed because theres another overlapping section in more or less the same spot. I would like sections to be less dense so that the shape of the ship visibly changes with each section lost.

I had to drastically reduce the hp of the stormcloud ships because otherwise they'd have like 20 times more total health than any other ship. which was ridiculous. as a result, each section on those ships has only like 20hp.

having densely packed overlapping sections is something i would like to avoid with ship designs. aside from my problem with the amount of health they end up having, i think they are a poor experience for players to destroy. what happens is that you destroy a section, you get a nice satisfying explosion, then it looks like nothing changed because theres another overlapping section in more or less the same spot. I would like sections to be less dense so that the shape of the ship visibly changes with each section lost.

Sounds reasonable i guess, a personal idea of mines,expand the galaxy map a bit and save the Stormcloud ships for the advanced/end sections of the map around the edges,they that they may have atleast some actual HP,because i can destroy swarms of them with ease in my ship with only half upgrades.

Yea i understand that. and trust me i want good looking ships for this game. just don't be gratuitous about overlapping sections and it should be fine. Also, if you find you are overlapping to get a specific shape, you should probably just request for a sprite in that shape in the spurting thread

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